Remember yesterday in the weekly radio address the president said this;<\/p>\n
\u201cI know these steps won\u2019t sit well with the special interests and lobbyists who are invested in the old way of doing business, and I know they\u2019re gearing up for a fight as we speak. My message to them is this: So am I,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Well, I guess by fighting, he means that he’s going to recruit the lobbyists to work in the government (Washington Times<\/a> link);<\/p>\n
Barbara J. Masters, a longtime USDA employee and now a senior policy adviser at a Washington law firm, and Caroline Smith DeWaal, food-safety director at the Center for Science in the Public Interest, are the leading candidates to head the department’s Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS), whose mission is to ensure that the nation’s supply of meat, poultry and egg products is safe. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I seem to remember that Obama signed an executive order<\/a> forbidding the executive agencies of the Federal government from hiring lobbyists who had served in the capacity in the last year. In fact, an article from nearly a month ago in the Washington Times<\/a>, reported on this phenomena;<\/p>\n
Nearly two dozen executive-branch hires, all the way up to Cabinet level, have been registered federal lobbyists, with the most-prominent being Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and William Lynn, the No. 2 man at the Pentagon. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n
I guess he brain washed all of those lobbyists from “being invested in the old ways of Washington”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"